The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1887-01-01
STATE NEWS AND VIEWS.
Natcbitoches is TO have q hank.

organized Farmers Alliance.
The Baton Rouge Truth comes to
us this week enlarged to seven
column folio.
Ex-Governor Fl. q. Warmoth is
postmaster at Lawrence, Plaque
mines parish.
A Monroe firm sold in one month
1921 pounds of cured meats
amounting in value to over 81, 900.
A petition is being circulated in
Bossier asking the police jury to
levy a tax of two and a half dollars
upon the head of every dog.
Gov. McEnery has been presented
by the officers of his staff with a
beautiful silver service as Christ
mas present.
The lack of crime recently of all
kinds inJefferson speaks we'll of the
parish and the excellence of the
police force.
RADIIE EXHlBrTioNs.-M J.
Juvenet will give public exhibitions
at his factory, near the Exposition
Grounds, daily from 3 to O'clock,
III the afternoon.
Found in our field, last Wednes-
day morning, all AK, a sack and an
old bat. The owner can have them
by calling at this office, proving
property, and paying for this ad
vertisement.- Amite Independent.
This is Christmas 1886, and the
Doodle semi-Republicans still claim
membership in the organization!
Honest men demand that the traitor
ious, tricky traders be made to
travel La. Standard.
Congressman Wallace's second
mission to Congress seems to he to
use himself as check upon pen.
sion frauds. He has returned again
this session and his objections are
again the stumbling block of his
more lavish fellow workers.-ICali.
graph.
| THE REAL FRIENDS OF THE
NEGRo.-Tho Louisiana Standard
conducted Ivy coIored men, saws:
The old Shareholders of tbe South
as a rule, knowsand appreciate the
value and worth of the negro: it is
only the the bulldozers and white
trash, who never owned slave,
that zee, or pretend to see, no good
in him.
s. B. Knowlton & Co., of Pla-
quemine, have entered into con
tract with Texas & Pacific Road, to
raise the road bed of the line west
of Atchafalaya river, distance of
about sixteen miles, the object being
to raise the bed above possible over
flow. A trestleworll of about 5000
feet was also necessary for the pur.
pose of giving the water a sufficient
means of escape. The contract
amounts to S192,O00.
The Item suggests to the good
people Houston, who talk of repu-
dating their city debt-don't try it..
New Orleans ill -advisedly went into
that game-losing, with most costly
consequences added. The honest
and wise plan is to work out OF
your difficulties through the agency
of upright and capable officials.
No city knows better than New
Orleans what is needed, or is more
competent from experience to give
good advice Item.
Hon. Warren Easton, SuperIn'
tendent OF Public Education, spent
Wednesday and Thursday OF last
week at the State Normal school
examining students and inspecting
the work of the different depart.
ments. He expressed himself
greatly pleased with everything
connected with the institution, and
was surprised at the large amount
of work that has been accomplished
since the beginning of the present
session. III Democratic Review.
Mr.. Fl. Hitchcock, of Plaquemine
Ridge, has presented MS with a fac
smile of the Ulster County Gazette,
OF january 4, 1900. published at
Kingston in that county, State of
New York, by Samuel Freer q Son.
1t is in mourning for the death of
Washington, which had just taken
place. 1t is filled with Congress
sional and Foreign news, and adj
vertisements-among the latter is
offered TOR sale, GA stout, healthy
active Negro Wench." That is
what they used to acall them up
North, but here in the potter South,
they are called "colored ladies'"
-ISt. Landry Democrat.
Employers are wiser than they
were eight months ago. They have
learned that labor has the same
right to organize as capital, and
that while no unjust demands of
labor should be acceded to, its rea-
Sonable claims onght to be heard
with patience. The laboring men
hnUa also UrOUD mora Anliphtann1